Thick Evaluation 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10: 0192525174
• ISBN 13: 9780192525178
• Author: Simon Kirchin

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We use evaluative terms and concepts every day. We call actions right and wrong, teachers wise and ignorant, and pictures elegant and grotesque. Philosophers place evaluative concepts into two camps. Thin concepts, such as goodness and badness, and rightness and wrongness have evaluative content, but they supposedly have no or hardly any nonevaluative, descriptive content: they supposedly give little or no specific idea about the character of the person or thing described. In
contrast, thick concepts such as kindness, elegance and wisdom supposedly give a more specific idea of people or things. Yet, given typical linguistic conventions, thick concepts also convey evaluation. Kind people are often viewed positively whilst ignorance has negative connotations.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part One: Understanding the Debate
2. Separationism
3. Conceptual Relations
4. The Thin
5. Disentangling and Shapelessness

Part Two: A Positive View
6. Thick Evaluation
7. Essentially Evaluative?
8. Understanding Others and Having Confidence
9. Evaluative Cognitivism

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